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When Rape Became an Institution
How would our lives have been different without all of the Jeffrey Epsteins? How might they still be?
Sep 6
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Virginia Heffernan
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MAGA's Theory of Knowledge
It will always dead-end in autocracy and eugenics.
Sep 4
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Virginia Heffernan
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When he dies, he dies
You know. "It."
Sep 1
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Virginia Heffernan
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August 2025
MAGA Gender Theory
Trump's ideas about gender are way, way, way more complex than Judith Butler's.
Aug 29
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Virginia Heffernan
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Social Media Is No Longer the Internet's Killer App
Good news. LLMs, unlike the cortisol-spiking socials, tend to converge on liberal democracy.
Aug 28
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Virginia Heffernan
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The Deportation Machine
A conversation about cruelty--and humanity--with Sarah Stillman
Aug 27
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Virginia Heffernan
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45:53
The Best Minds of My Generation (Part VII)
So many minds destroyed by liberal greed or rightwing ideology. But there's something else.
Aug 25
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Virginia Heffernan
32
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Philosophical Rescue (VI)
More mini-memoir. Finally, I listen. I'm politically impure, but so is everyone.
Aug 23
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Virginia Heffernan
44
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Un-American Activities Everywhere
A very weird sign goes up in Topeka.
Aug 22
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Virginia Heffernan
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Sad Party Girl, Banished (Part V)
The mini-memoir continues. Bad buzz in Charlottesville. Exile to the stacks.
Aug 21
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Virginia Heffernan
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The Dictator Expert Who's Not Worried
Alastair Smith says democracy will prevail
Aug 20
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Virginia Heffernan
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8
50:03
What If Protests Work? (Part IV)
The protests pan out. The spell of the right won't let up. So I head to the University of Virginia, where I learn the hard, dumb lesson you saw coming.
Aug 20
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Virginia Heffernan
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